Welcome to the BGC Blog - "Focus and Align" Insights, observations, and lessons learned in the world of Continuous Improvement These...

The Harvard Business School conducted a corporate survey in 2000 and concluded that about 70% of change initiatives fail to achieve...

In Lean we are taught of the seven deadly wastes (or eight depending upon your teacher/coach). The acronym TIMWOOD is often used as a...

A state of flow is the mental state where a person is fully immersed in a feeling, sometimes known as being in the zone. This is...

Social Media has become a primary platform for professional athletes in snowboarding, wakeboarding and surfing to demonstrate their...

Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins founded their company that would grow into the world's largest chain of ice cream shops in 1945. The original...